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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Must Be Global Warming... |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 11:36 pm |
| Tags: Environment |
| Forecasters cut 2007 hurricane outlook...The 2007 hurricane season may be less severe than forecast due to cooler-than-expected water temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, private forecaster WSI Corp said on Tuesday. The season will bring 14 named storms, of which six will become hurricanes and three will become major hurricanes, WSI said in its |
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| Diana Butler Bass: Michael Vick Versus Gregory of Nyssa |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 2:07 pm |
| Tags: Culture, Environment |
| While the rest of the world buried its collective nose in Harry Potter last weekend, I spent my time reading early Christianity. It proved a tough call: The fate of Hogwarts or the Roman Empire? I chose Constantine over Voldemort. I am not a total geek, but I am writing a new book on church history for progressives. One problem of classical |
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| Oy, meh haya lanu |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 6:31 pm |
| Tags: Environment, Holidays |
| I live in one of the most environmentally aware places in the US, with a delicious, pure and safe water supply coming from the Hetch Hetchy valley and dam in Yosemite…yet many people I know actually STOCK bottled water in their homes. I complain about this constantly, directly to them, to anyone who will listen. The water in Hetch |
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| 2,000 Step Up to Preserve Mt. Rainer [commonground] |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:40 pm |
| Tags: Environment |
| As a former Student Conservation Association (SCA) corps member, I can honestly state getting out of New York and into the wild was a positive life changing experience. The SCA continues to work on conserving the federal parks system with the help of legions of summer volunteers, a dedicated staff, and alumni. After winter storms caused |
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| Top 10 green days out |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 8:28 am |
| Tags: Ethical Living, Environment, Travel And Transport, Travel |
| Bibi van der Zee offers some ideas for entertaining and inspiring day trips with a conscience |
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| The stately wrecks of England |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 6:34 am |
| Tags: Uk News, Environment, Conservation, Art News, Art, Arts, Travel, Travel News, United Kingdom, Heritage |
| English Heritage's 'basket cases' need huge amounts of money to repair them, but cannot recoup the cost. |
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| Claire Fauset: Make your mark and ground the growth of aviation |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 6:06 am |
| Tags: Activists, Society, Comment, Environment, Travel, Travel And Transport, Green Travel, Climate Change |
| Claire Fauset: Next month's Camp for Climate Action will put Heathrow airport at the frontline of direct action on climate change. Hundreds of people, including many from the local community, will be camping there. |
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| National Trust puts 3.5m members in front line against climate change |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 5:59 am |
| Tags: Environment, Rural Affairs, Voluntary Sector, Society, Climate Change, Travel, Travel News, Heritage, Uk News |
| It controls 900-square miles of land and 710 miles of coastline and has far moremembers than the armed services, the teaching profession, the prison population, environmental groups and political parties combined. |
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| Bononbos Put the Schwing in Swing [commonground] |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:43 am |
| Tags: Environment |
| Bononbos are reputed to be Nature's reigning peace-loving party animals, a free-loving matriarchical society that would make Haight Ashbury hippy happenings seem sedate by comparison. This pop image of the bonobo--equal parts dolphin, Dalai Lama, and Warren Beatty--has flourished largely in the absence of the animal itself, which was recognized |
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| Nuclear 'green', renewables not? [Highly Allochthonous] |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 12:28 pm |
| Tags: Environment |
| demands will wreck the environment. Ausubel has analyzed the amount of energy that each so-called renewable source can produce in terms of Watts of power output per square meter of land disturbed. He also compares the destruction of nature by renewables with the demand for space of nuclear power. "Nuclear energy is green," he claims, |
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| Is the Endangered Species List, Endangered? [commonground] |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 12:21 pm |
| Tags: Environment |
| During President Bush's time in the White House, the listing of endangered and threatened species has slowed down considerably. It's a fraction of the number his father made in four years (58 new listings compared with 231 by the senior Bush), and most of those were court-ordered. New funding for protection of such species has been cut as well. |
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| Smart floors convert footsteps to free energy |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:55 pm |
| Tags: Environment |
| There's free energy floating around everywhere. The trick is figuring out how to harness it. Some smartypants at MIT are working on a special floor that harnesses energy from footsteps, turning your walking into lighting above your head. The fancy, efficient floors could be used in commuter-heavy areas like airports or shopping malls, helping |
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| Worthy Wisdom: Clean eating may fight off cancer |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 4:00 am |
| Tags: Additives, Antibiotic, Canyon, Chemicals, Clean, Eating, Environment, Epa, Food, Foods, Hormones, Labels, Metals, Organic, Pesticides, Preservatives, Produce, Ranch, Toxic, Wash, Wisdom, Worthy |
| we living in a toxic environment? The experts at Canyon Ranch ask us to consider these facts: The EPA estimates that 4.7 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment annually. It's likely that 25 percent of the U.S. population suffers from some level of heavy metal poisoning. Fourteen pounds of food |
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| Blair: years. Entertainment: weak. |
| Published: July 6, 2007, 7:46 am |
| Tags: Tony Blair, Consumerism, Spice Girls, Harry Potter, Environment, Christianity, Politics, News |
| We have been waiting so long. Ten years, in fact. At times it seemed it would never end, the waiting, hoping, praying. But now it seems it is over. The sun has broken through the clouds and all of Britain can sigh with relief as all our hopes, dreams and desires over the last dark decade are beautifully met with one simple announcement that came |
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| Global Warming: Seven Generations, not Seven Years ... |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 4:09 am |
| Tags: Global Warming, Environment, Joe Lieberman, John Warner, Front Paged |
| [Promoted from the Diaries by Meteor Blades.] We live in a "time of consequences." We, as individuals and collectively, are setting the path which will determine the living conditions for millenia to come. This time of consequences is both long term and quite immediate. This is true for the individual. Do you invest in an energy efficient |
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